[Photo above: Israeli soldier beating West Bank Palestinian: UK: The Independent] The Israeli genocide in Gaza continues and intensifies with the outbreak of polio — once thought to be eradicated worldwide — among Palestinian children. The Israeli aim of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has reached a new stage in the West Bank. Jeremy Scahill of … Continue reading Israel terrorizes West Bank while continuing war in Gaza • By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard →

By Karlos Bermann On August 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [photo above] announced that his country had “paused” relations with the embassies of the United States and Canada. He stressed that the “pause” applied to the embassies and not to the countries themselves, whatever that may mean or imply. Some news outlets, apparently … Continue reading Imperialism: Everywhere You Look By Karlos Bermann →

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist 28 Aug 2024   What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as western countries descend into crises of their own making and are more blatant in their disregard for the norms they claim to … Continue reading “Democracies” Attack Journalism as They Attack Democracy Itself, By Margaret Kimberely →

By Jeff Mackler 24,500 full size posters reading “We ♥ Joe” [See photo above] were held high by virtually every Democratic Party Convention delegate and attendee jammed into Chicago’s United Center to cheer for yesterday’s disgraced and withdrawn presidential candidate, Genocide Joe Biden. That the Biden-Harris administration presided over a new congressionally approved $20 billion … Continue reading Democratic Party Convention… The “Lesser Evil” Strikes Again…with a Vengeance and a Cacophony of Lies, Obfuscations and Corporate Media Orchestrated Hype →

[Initiated by the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller and Defending Rights and Dissent’s Chip Gibbons, the following letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on behalf of a coalition of over 140 journalists and press freedom advocates in solidarity with their colleagues facing targeted killings in Palestine. Read their press release about the … Continue reading 140 Journalists/Media Workers Demand US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Impose Arms Embargo on Israel! →

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 15, 2024  [Photo above: Mijaín López, Cuban athlete who for the first time in history won five consecutive gold medals at the Olympics in the same sport, Greco-Roman wrestling, 2004 - 2024, Photo by Victor Villalba Gutiérrez] [Editor’s note by Jeff Mackler: That Cuba’s Mijaín López, won an unprecedented … Continue reading Cuba’s Parallel Reality in Paris Olympics: [With an editor’s note on new Netflix documentary “Mafia spies” on CIA/Mafia collaboration on assassination attempts on Fidel Castro’s life] →

The March on the DNC will be a march for Palestine. Click here for the dates, locations, full demands, etc. marchondnc2024.org Our main demand will be: Stand with Palestine! End U.S. Aid to Israel We will also be bringing together the demands of the people’s movements to the door of the Democratic party: Money for … Continue reading March on the Democratic Party National Convention: DEMANDS →

By Karlos Bermann [Photo above: Protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh celebrate the downfall of Sheikh Hasina, August 5, 2024 (AP/Rajib Dhar)] An interim government for Bangladesh was sworn in on the night of August 8, following the return to the country by Muhammad Yunus, the former managing director of the Bangladesh Grameen Bank and a perennial … Continue reading With US imperialism behind the curtain, Bangladesh swears in new leader and interim government →

By Jeff Mackler [Photo below: One million Venezuelans celebrate Maduro election victory.] With 80 percent of voting stations counted, the country’s election authority reported that President Maduro had received 51.2 percent of the vote. Edmundo González, the US imperialist backed and financed  “opposition” candidate received 44.2 percent. González had declared in advance of the election, … Continue reading Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro Re-elected Despite US Backing His Rightist Would-be Coup Plotters →

[July 24 Chicago Federal Plaza rally statement by representative of Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine protesting bi-partisan Netanyahu invitation to address US Congress, 600 attended.] This Sunday, after nearly 10 months of mass outrage and action against the genocide genocidair-in-chief, Joe Biden has stepped down from the 2024 election race. There can be no doubt … Continue reading We have zero obligation to vote for war criminals and career politicians who serve no one but their rich donors →

By Derek Seidman, [Reprinted with permission from TRUTHOUT, July 31, 2024.] Over the past few years, the battle against the proposed 85-acre Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — commonly known as “Cop City” — has emerged as a national flashpoint of resistance to militarized, corporate-backed police power. As it turns out, Cop City is also … Continue reading Billionaire Donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Are Underwriting A Thin Blue Line Between Israel and Atlanta’s “Cop City” →

Statement from the ANSWER Coalition 
in response to White House and media lies [Editor’s Note: Jeff Mackler, Tens of thousands of antiwar and social justice activists, supporters of Palestinian freedom, people of all faiths and organizations representing a broad spectrum of the US antiwar movement mobilized in Washington, D.C on July 24. We reprint below … Continue reading Defeat for Netanyahu and 
His Protectors in Washington: Tens of thousands demand war criminal’s arrest →

By Jeff Mackler As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary, “family-oriented,” thanking God for saving his life five days earlier from an assassin’s near fatal bullet, … Continue reading Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out →

By Joe Allen [Photo above: President Joe Biden with Kenyan President William Ruto, White House] “The menu featured fruitwood-smoked beef short ribs, poached lobster, chilled heirloom tomato soup and a white chocolate basket.” Yummy. A few hours before the sumptuous dinner, Reuters reported, Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt … Continue reading Palestinians Starve While White House Feast Honors Kenya’s Killer President Ruto: Biden Backs 1000 Kenyan Troops to Enforce US-imposed Haitian Dictatorship →

By Jeff Mackler  Despite a week of intense Camp David pre-debate preparation, where President Biden was pumped full with “facts” provided by his $billionaire-backed campaign advisers aimed at demonstrating his administration’s “achievements,” Biden proved incapable of a single coherent explanation of his policies. We’ll leave it to the “experts” to evaluate the intellectual capacities of … Continue reading “Genocide Joe” Biden’s Blown Debate With “Moron” Donald Trump: Democrats Scramble to Terminate Biden’s Candidacy   →

By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report  Executive Editor and Senior Columnist July 3, 2024 [Photo above: Julian Assange arrives in Australia on June 26, 2024 (Photo: AFP)] After seven years of asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London and another five years imprisoned by the United Kingdom, Julian Assange is finally a free man. The prospect … Continue reading Julian Assange Freed by the Prospect of Justice →

By Jeff Mackler Thanks to all the activists across the country and around the world who made this possible. Below are some snippets from Julian’s friends who describe some of the details of his release. More later. A detained report is in preparation. Julian’s plea bargain agreement of guilt on one felony charge sets no … Continue reading Julian Assange is Free!   →

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns US Black (Mis)Leaders for Their Support of US Military Intervention and Occupation of Haiti Statement by BAP Haiti Americas Team The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace rebukes the US Black “misleadership” class for its support of the latest US invasion and occupation of Haiti. We condemn the … Continue reading No To US-backed Imperialist intervention In Haiti! →

By Cristobal Cavazos The June 4th announcement by President Joseph Biden that the right to asylum was all but over is a reactionary move by a reactionary administration. Ironically, 85 years ago to the day, the racist 1924 US Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tragically refused asylum to close to 1000 Jews onboard … Continue reading Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum →

By Mumia Abu-Jamal Audio Player 00:00 04:44 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Download “The Remarkable Life of Marty Goodman” There are remarkable men and women in the world who did something extraordinary intheir lives for which they will be long remembered. And then there are quite extraordinarypeople like Marty Goodman who did … Continue reading Mumia on “The Remarkable Life of Marty Goodman” →

June 7 Memorial Meeting Video ad Slide Show Co-sponsors: Transport Workers Union Local 100 and Socialist Action [Editors note: Click below for two separate presentations: (a) the slides in the slideshow prepared by Cliff Conner that also appear with commentary in the (b) two-hour memorial via YouTube featuring Marty Goodman’s comrades, trade union sisters and … Continue reading Honoring Marty Goodman →

Dear Friends, If you are able, please join us this coming Friday, June 7 in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate the life of socialist, trade union activist/leader and human rights fighter, Marty Goodman.  Speakers include a broad range of leaders of today’s important social justice, political, trade union and solidarity organizations.  I look forward to seeing … Continue reading Celebrate the Life of Marty Goodman →

By Jeff Mackler “GUILTY: JURY CONVICTS TRUMP ON ALL 34 COUNTS” was the May 31 banner headline of the nation’s leading corporate and Democratic Party mouthpiece, “newspaper of record,” The New York Times. Trump’s sentencing hearing is set for July 11. The Times legal experts note that trial Judge Juan Merchan could sentence Trump to … Continue reading “GUILTY:” Trump and Biden’s Twin Parties of War, Racism, Repression and Corruption →

By Chris Hedges The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The May 20 decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite … Continue reading The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues →